Rodney Graham

Rodney Graham Cv

Rodney Graham is recognized for a rigorously intellectual art, which ranges from photography, film, video and music to sculpture, painting and books. Graham's work examines social and philosophical systems of thought, in particular those derived from the transition of the Enlightenment into Modernism. Underlying each work is an historical context, through which a complex narrative incorporates literary and philosophic references and visual puns.
The work is essentially circular in structure and moves in seamless and infinite loops, such as the film trilogy Vexation Island (1997), How I Became a Ramblin' Man (1999), and City Self/Country Self (2001), where Graham impersonates fictional characters - respectively a castaway, a cowboy and a city dandy as well as its opposite, a country man – who are engaged in the endless repetition of fruitless actions and gestures, caught in the impossibility of reaching any meaningful conclusion. Borrowing from existing models, Graham constructs his own system, whose operating logic, often based in disorientation, the humorous and the absurd, deflects rather than reveals the key to their interpretation.

Rodney Graham lives and works in Vancouver.
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Rodney Graham Press

Art News, 1st September 2010
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Art Review, 1st October 2010
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Globe and Mail, 24th February 2010
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Frieze Magazine, 7th May 2008
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Time Out, 24th October 2007
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Rodney Graham Exhibitions

Rodney Graham, Painter, Poet, Lighthouse Keeper  June 23 - July 31, 2010
Lisson Presents 7  November 25, 2009 - January 16, 2010
Lisson Presents 1  February 4 - 21, 2009
RODNEY GRAHAM, Wet on Wet - My Late Early Styles  October 10 - November 17, 2007
Rodney Graham  October 19 - November 23, 2005
"The distance between me and you."  July 9 - September 6, 2003
Rodney Graham  December 7, 2000 - January 27, 2001
A Shot in the Head  July 14 - September 9, 2000
Then and Now  July 18 - September 12, 1998
Rodney Graham  November 23, 1996 - January 11, 1997
Victor Burgin, Dan Graham, Rodney Graham, John Hillard  July 20 - September 6, 1996
Rodney Graham & Juan Muñoz  October 22 - December 4, 1993
Rodney Graham  September 13 - October 13, 1990
Real Allegories  July 20 - September 8, 1990

Rodney Graham Public Exhibitions

PAST

It Is What It Is
National Gallery of Canada, Ottowa
22 October 2010 - 30 January 2011
The National Gallery of Canada

Rodney Graham
Through the Forest, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
22 October 2010 - 30 January 2011
Hamburger Kunsthalle

Rodney Graham – Through the Forest
MACBA – Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona, ES
30 January 2010 - 18 May 2010
MACBA

Glass of Beer
CAC Málaga, Spain
21 April 2008
CAC Málaga

Lobbing Potatoes at a Gong
BAWAG Foundation, Vienna
30 March 2007 - 16 June 2007
BAWAG Foundation

Rodney Graham, A Little Thought
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
25 July 2004 - 3 January 2005
MOCA LA

Rodney Graham
K21, Dusseldorf, Germany
15 February - 15 May 2003
K21

Rodney Graham, Music and Some Noise
Kunsthalle Zurich, Switzerland
2002
Kunsthalle Zurich

Rodney Graham Images

<i>Artist’s Model Posing for “The Old Bugler, Among The Fallen, Battle of Beaune-la-Roland, 1870” in the Studio of An Unknown Military Painter, Paris, 1885</i>, 2009 Painted aluminium lightbox with transmounted chromogenic transparency 181.9 x 247.9 x 17.8 cm
Artist’s Model Posing for “The Old Bugler, Among The Fallen, Battle of Beaune-la-Roland, 1870” in the Studio of An Unknown Military Painter, Paris, 1885, 2009 Painted aluminium lightbox with transmounted chromogenic transparency 181.9 x 247.9 x 17.8 cm
<i>Good Hand Bad Hand</i>,2010 Two painted aluminum lightboxes with transmounted chromogenic transparencies 89.5 x 74.3 x 17.8 cm each panel 89.5 x 173.6 x 17.8 cm installed
Good Hand Bad Hand,2010 Two painted aluminum lightboxes with transmounted chromogenic transparencies 89.5 x 74.3 x 17.8 cm each panel 89.5 x 173.6 x 17.8 cm installed
<i>Psychomania variation II</i>, 2010 Multi canvas painting 228 x 435 x 5 cm
Psychomania variation II, 2010 Multi canvas painting 228 x 435 x 5 cm
<i>Psychomania variation I</i>, 2010 Multi canvas painting 245 x 612.5 x 5 cm
Psychomania variation I, 2010 Multi canvas painting 245 x 612.5 x 5 cm
<i>My Late Early Styles (Part I, The Middle Period)</i>, 2007-2009 Chromogenic photograph 186.4 x 247.6 cm
My Late Early Styles (Part I, The Middle Period), 2007-2009 Chromogenic photograph 186.4 x 247.6 cm
<i>Inverted Drip Painting #34</i> 2008 Liquid acrylic on linen 276.9 x 215.9 cm
Inverted Drip Painting #34 2008 Liquid acrylic on linen 276.9 x 215.9 cm
Rotary Psycho-Opticon, 2008 AV & Multimedia 120 x 144 inches
Rotary Psycho-Opticon, 2008 AV & Multimedia 120 x 144 inches
<i>Screen Door, </i>2005 Solid silver 203 x 82 x 12 cm
Screen Door, 2005 Solid silver 203 x 82 x 12 cm
<i>Tourqued Chandelier Release, </i>2004 35mm silent colour film (5min), purpose built projector screen Screen 305 x 183 cm
Tourqued Chandelier Release, 2004 35mm silent colour film (5min), purpose built projector screen Screen 305 x 183 cm
<i>Images qui succedent à la contemplation d’objets d’un grand éclat ou même d’objets bien éclaires</i>,1989 Brass, plexiglass and book 14 x 67 x 50 cm
Images qui succedent à la contemplation d’objets d’un grand éclat ou même d’objets bien éclaires,1989 Brass, plexiglass and book 14 x 67 x 50 cm

Rodney Graham Contact

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